6/9/2023 0 Comments The brothers lionheart![]() They will love it - boys and girls alike. You HAVE to let your child read this book. The story is about hope and the fight for freedom - and about the strong bond between brother. Luckily the sadness is soon expelled by a new cheerful beginning for the hero of the story, Tvebak (I'm not sure how this is translated in the english version, but in Danish it means "rusk" or "crust of bread") and his brother, Jonathan. This does not lend itself well to reading aloud - I was in tears by the end of chapter one and choking on the words. The story grips you from the fist page with the most hard wrenching, sad and moving start you can imagine. The paperback is not as nice as my old hard back copy - this is a classic to be read and reread and passed on, so I recommend to get the hard back.Īnyhow, the story had certainly not lost it's magic for me. Unfortunately my own copy has gone missing so I had to get him a new. He can't read danish, though so I thought I would read this aloud for him. Now my own son i 7 and has learned danish although we live in Scotland. I remember it as magical and epic and utterly absorbing. Being danish and growing up in the 70's I read this book when it first came out.I must have been about 10.
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